Blogging
Let us talk about blogging and using it to market products and earn affiliate
marketing commissions. Just like YouTube, blogging is a great way to make
affiliate marketing commissions. You can say blogging is the godfather of
affiliate marketing, as that's what started this whole "affiliate marketing"
trend. Just like YouTube, you need to get steady traffic to your blog before
you can begin to make some money from it.
Now, there are a lot of ways to drive traffic to your blog, and they are quite
similar to YouTube's way of attracting traffic, but we will only discuss the
main three methods you can use to start advertising your blogs right now.
The first method is getting free traffic from other blogs and forums. Let's say
your blog is related to fitness. What you will do is find a popular blog and its
discussions online. If it is a forum, then it's recommended that you truly
become a part of the forum and start asking questions and answering
questions. Once you truly begin to feel like you are becoming a part of the
conference, then slowly start to link your blogs into the forum post which
will help you get more traffic to your blog. You see, doing this will help you
get more traffic to your blog where you will start to promote your products.
Now if it is a blog, then I would recommend you put a link to your blog in the
comment sections of the more significant, more popular blog. This will also
help you get traffic.
The second method to get some traffic to your blog would be to become a
guest writer on a more popular blog. This might require you to invest some
money, but it is worth it. What you will do is the first contact a blog related to
your niche, which is already getting a lot of traffic. Second, you will have to
either pay the blog owner to feature you in his or her blog or if he/she is
gracious enough, he/she would feature you in the blog for free. Make sure to
leave a link to your blog on their website, so the people following his or her
blog can start following you.
Collecting emails—now this method works the best! For you to make some
affiliate sales, you will need to make sure people see your affiliate products.
Making sure you collect emails of every person that visits your blog will
boost your sales, how you do that is simple. Offer something for free, so if
